if there's one thing you want with a speaker system it's flexibility and with its wireless
audio system Hamilton have definitely provided us with that we're going to look at three elements of
that system in this video we're going to look at the wireless streaming amplifier we're going to
look at the ceiling speaker and we're also going to look at the wireless active speaker now i'm
going to install this system in my studio here so you can see how easy it is to get it up and
running let's look at the wireless amplifier first of all now unless you're in the habit of
installing audio the thought of installing amplifiers and speakers can start to make you feel
a little bit nervous when you start thinking about impedances and power ratings and things like that
but Hamilton have taken the fear out of that situation by making it easy to connect all the
components together and in fact having a separate amplifier has some advantages it means that you
can leave it accessible in say a cupboard or a storeroom and be able to get to it at a later date
without removing any speakers from the ceiling so as well as powering the ceiling speaker system
this bit of kit really is the brains of the setup it can connect via wi-fi to your home network
or you can hardwire it with a data cable it's also got a bluetooth connection to connect your
mobile devices to the system as well which also opens up the opportunity for connecting say your
echo to the hamilton system and that means that you can control certain elements of the system
with Alexa also another little feature that I absolutely love is that it's got a USB
port as you can see here where you can connect up a storage device with music on it as well
that's absolutely perfect for people like myself who held out for a long time against paying for
a streaming service so that's a really good bonus and as well as all this you've got a
line in and line out connections allowing this to connect your existing sound system
which i'm sure you've spent hours of your life and much of your money putting together over the years
in terms of installation it couldn't be simpler out of the box you just simply
screw on the two antennae one of them is for the wi-fi here and then the other one is for
the Bluetooth so that's nice and simple and then all you've got to do once you've got those screwed
on is connect up the power supply and that power supply can either be plugged into a socket outlet
or you can cut the plug off it and hardwire it into a spur and that's it on the main side for
the audio side the connections are also really simple now it's worth noting at this stage that
the amplifier has both a left hand a right hand channel as you can see here if you're connecting
two speakers up you'll need to run two cables from here one to each speaker and that gives you
stereo sound however if you're only running one speaker then you'll still need to run a connection
for each channel to the speaker otherwise you'll lose whatever's coming from the channel that you
don't connect up let me show you what that looks like by actually installing the ceiling speaker so
I'm going to put two of these into the ceiling of my studio here and I've already cut the mounting
hole out for one of them now normally I'd make the connections and then install the speaker
but i can actually access the terminals from above the ceiling so i'll do these last on this occasion
so i just push the speaker into the hole in the plasterboard and then we tighten up the screws
and as we do so you can see that it brings those lugs tight up against the plasterboard
fixing the speaker firmly in place now let's talk about connections it couldn't be easier
at the amplifier end i've connected the red and black to the positive and negative terminals of
the right channel for this speaker and i'll do the same at this end making the connection couldn't be
easier i just push down this terminal push the conductor in and release and that's it done same
again for the negative connection and we're away now i'll just finish running the second speaker
cable to my other speaker and because we're putting two speakers off this this wire here will
go to speaker number two and connect up in just the same way red to positive and black to negative
now i don't know if you noticed but that's the installation
done and powered up all we've done is just powered up the amp we've installed the speaker and we've
connected it really that could not have been any simpler so clearly there's nothing complicated
about installing these speakers and then the final touch the grille that goes onto the speaker here
is attached via magnets meaning that there's no aligning tiny tabs and then them slipping out
as it twists into place it just snaps on and can even be over painted to match the ceiling colour
so that's the amp and the ceiling speaker installed now let's have a look at the
wireless active speaker so this is designed to sit on a worktop and has this kind of
quite interesting shape to it meaning that you can either sit it in the corner of a kitchen
or you can lay it on its side and use it in this position again it will connect via wi-fi meaning
that you can use it to stream your favorite music controlled by the easy to navigate and operate
hamilton app but the real strength of this speaker and indeed the whole system lies not
just in the high quality audio that's obviously a given but rather in its flexibility the speakers
are fully compatible with each other meaning that i can operate this wireless active speaker
as a standalone unit but i can also link it up to the wireless amp that i installed
earlier and have them all working together to create a complete audio experience and all of
this can be achieved via the hamilton app they do not need to be hardwired together
this flexibility and adaptability means that you can add to the audio system in your house in
stages instead of outlaying for it all at once maybe adding some for the kitchen renovation
then when the lounge gets decorated a pair of ceiling speakers and then maybe a couple of active
speakers in the kids rooms as they get a little bit older and the best thing is that all the amps
and active speakers can operate independently so everyone can enjoy their own sounds in different
spaces and then all be linked together to play the same music which might be perfect for a party
or something like that so with simple connectivity flexibility and expandability coupled with quality
materials like kevlar cones and titanium tweeters hamilton have a serious contender
for your audio installation in their wireless audio system thank you very much for watching